Echoes Of World War Ii

Author : Trish Marx
Publisher : Kar-Ben Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780822548980
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Echoes of World War II written by Trish Marx and published by Kar-Ben Publishing. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the stories of six people from different parts of the world whose childhoods were shaped by their experiences during World War II.

Author : Bernard Lovell
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000065057
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Echoes of War written by Bernard Lovell and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: August 1939 was a time of great flux. The fear of impending war fueled by the aggression of Nazi Germany forced many changes. Young people pursuing academic research were plunged into an entirely different kind of research and development. For Bernard Lovell, the war meant involvement in one of the most vital research projects of the war-radar.

Author : Danke Li
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252034899
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Echoes of Chongqing written by Danke Li and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The voices of ordinary women in China's War of Resistance against Japan

Author : Sten Gould
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595088929
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Echoes from the Past written by Sten Gould and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-01-20 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an ex-GI, shopping for some meaning in my seventh decade, I was drawn to the three journals I had kept during World War II. In these yellowing pages, still covered and protected with 1944 brown paper grocery bags, I had hoped to find something about my youth that would, perhaps, illuminate and even explain the exciting journey I am, at the moment, slowly completing. Surprisingly, rereading my teen-age entries (written in blue-black Waterman’s ink and with lots of misspelling), this “older edition” was buoyed-up by the sensitivity and insight of his youthful counterpart. When the war in Europe ended, and with our military converted to an Army of Occupation, we “young kids in uniform” had to make rapid psychological adjustments. Our focus changed from serving our country to, possibly, serving our own needs? Sexuality rapidly rose to first place. The German girls were beautiful. Why fight it? I fell in love with a young woman whom my family would consider a Nazi. (Wasn’t every German a Nazi?) What was I going to do when I got back? Bring my girlfriend? Tell my Jewish parents and friends in the Bronx that despite the death camps the Germans could still be pretty nice, intelligent people...even loveable? Young people reading this book will be impressed by how the thoughts of an 18-year old in 1944 are still vitally significant today. Older folks might learn to re-connect with the kid still within them.

Author : Mira Ryczke Kimmelman
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870499562
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Echoes From The Holocaust written by Mira Ryczke Kimmelman and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1945, British troops liberated the camp, and Mira was eventually reunited with her father. Most of the other members of her family had perished.

Author : Chas Lotter
Publisher : 30 Degrees South Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Echoes of an African War written by Chas Lotter and published by 30 Degrees South Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... only the poets of the First World War have captured so compellingly the many moods of the young soldiers" --Prof Marcia Leveson (President English Academy of Southern Africa) The soldier poet of southern Africa matches his haunting poetry with authentic photos, paintings and sketches to tell the story of the Rhodesian bush war. Echoes of an African War follows the story of the teenaged army recruit who exchanged his home and his family for the world of barrack life. It sketches the years, until 1973, when a low-intensity war allowed a young man to explore the African bush. The story then bursts into the late 1970s when the conflict escalated into a vicious civil war. It covers the war's end, in 1980, and the subsequent readjustment to civilian life before finishing, in 1999, when, as a mature man, he looks back and remembers events that are now history. Most important of all, this work imparts to his children what it looked like to have been been a soldier in Rhodesia's war. Chas Lotter has perfected the magic art of combining pathos and eeriness. His observations are canny and surgically precise as he gradually unfolds his story. Chas Lotter, the soldier poet of the Rhodesian war, had an unusual apprenticeship in the craft of poetry. Life began for him in Germiston, South Africa in 1949. His family moved to Rhodesia in 1953 and it was there that he grew up on farms in the Bindura and Gatooma (Kadoma) areas. He moved to Salisbury (Harare) in 1974 where he met his wife, Avril. As a field medic, Sergeant Lotter served for nine years with frontline units of the Rhodesian Army. It was these years of action, emotion and savage experience that fuelled the poet's fire in him. He started writing poetry "on the backs of cigarette boxes" in an attempt to deal with the realities of the war. From such humble beginnings emerged a series of vivid pictures of an African nation at war. Lotter's work was first published in Peter Badcock's volume, Shadows of War. Subsequently, he collaborated with Badcock on another successful work, Faces of War. In 1984, he published his highly acclaimed Rhodesian Soldier that blends photographs and verse to form a wide-ranging monograph of the Rhodesian war. His work has earned him membership of the English Academy of Southern Africa and his poetry has been published around the world. He lives in Pretoria, South Africa.

Author : Sasha Maslov
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1616896132
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Veterans written by Sasha Maslov and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ichiro Sudan trained to be a kamikaze. Roscoe Brown was a commander in the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American military aviators. Charin Singh, a farmer from Delhi, spent seven years as a Japanese prisoner of war and was not sent home until four years after the war ended. Uli John lost an arm serving in the German army but ultimately befriended former enemy soldiers as part of a network of veterans—"people who fought in the war and know what war really means." These are some of the faces and stories in the remarkable Veterans, the outcome of a worldwide project by Sasha Maslov to interview and photograph the last surviving combatants from World War II. Soldiers, support staff, and resistance fighters candidly discuss wartime experiences and their lifelong effects in this unforgettable, intimate record of the end of a cataclysmic chapter in world history and tribute to the members of an indomitable generation. Veterans is also a meditation on memory, human struggle, and the passage of time.

Author : Thomas Mauer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781930050051
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memories & Echoes written by Thomas Mauer and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten stories commemorating the 60th anniversary of the end of the war.

Author : Krystyna Libura
Publisher : Libros Tigrillo
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Echoes of the Mexican-American War written by Krystyna Libura and published by Libros Tigrillo. This book was released on 2004 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discussion of the events from both sides of the conflict, with eyewitness accounts, documents, photographs, illustrations, and notes that augment the material, covering soldier's stories and political and military strategies.

Author : Clair Wills
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674026827
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book That Neutral Island written by Clair Wills and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where previous histories of Ireland in the war years have focused on high politics, That Neutral Island mines deeper layers of experience. Stories, letters, and diaries illuminate this small country as it suffered rationing, censorship, the threat of invasion, and a strange detachment from the war.